A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts

by Edward Jones

Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period. Features essays illustrating the particular ways a manuscript and a printed book reflect the different emphases of an elite, private and an egalitarian, public culture, both of which account for the literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118635299
• ISBN13: 9781118635292
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"